'I Can Have a Really Great Life That Doesn’t Cost So Much'

Over the past two years, the New York City exodus has become such a cliché that some expats don’t even want to tell their new neighbors where they’re from. “The locals are sick of people like me driving up housing prices,” one person told me from her new home in New Hampshire. “It’s easier to make friends if I don’t say I moved from Brooklyn.”

Fair, but that doesn’t mean everyone leaving New York could afford to stay there, either. Here, three people reflect on what moving someplace cheaper has meant for their finances, and how they can plan for the future.

Russia attacked Ukraine, killing at least 40 soldiers and ten civilians, according to the Ukrainian government. Of course, celebrities have not missed the chance to make the invasion about themselves. More than half of abortions in the U.S. are now carried out with the abortion pill, according to new data. The Queen Elizabeth death hoax keeps getting weirder. Jennifer Lawrence appears to have given birth to her first child with gallery-owner husband Cooke Maroney. And have you noticed a newfound cultural obsession with reevaluating public figures treated poorly by the media? You probably have You’re Wrong About podcast host Sarah Marshall to thank for that.

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